[m-rev.] for review: port Mercury to MSYS (MinGW)

Ian MacLarty maclarty at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Oct 4 19:25:23 AEST 2005


On 4 Oct 2005, at 17:03, Julien Fischer wrote:

>> +
>> +To use or build Mercury on Windows, you need to first get Cygwin and
>> +install it.  Cygwin version 1.3.1 is buggy and should not be used, 
>> but
>> +Cygwin 1.1.* or Cygwin 1.3.2 or later should be OK.  Recent versions 
>> of
>> +Cygwin can be installed directly from:
>> +
>> +	http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe
>> +
> Is this URL still current?
>
>

Yes, it appears to be.

>>
>> +    It is important to specify the installation prefix as a full 
>> windows
>> +    path with a drive letter (except use `/' instead of `\').
>> +    Do not use a path like `/mercury', because that
>> +    will be interpretted differently by the MSYS shell than by the 
>> generated
>
> s/interpretted/interpreted/
>

Fixed.

>
> Looks good otherwise.

Cheers,

Ian.

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